At a restaurant Mike and his three friends that means that there was four people splitting the bill. If each of them paid $13 then the bill was $52
4 * 13 = $52
Every year, the price of the smartphone is the
of the price of the previous year (since we lose the
, we remain with the
).
Since
can be written as
, the price after one year will be

After two years, the price is the
of the price after one year:

And so on: after three years we have

So, the answer is somewhere between three and four years.
Bakabaga anabahakan agajaba Avanavajakab
-4.2c+4.8d is the answer to this equation.